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Sun Announces New High-Performance, Energy Efficient Disk Arrays

Sun Microsystems has announced the expansion of its industry-leading disk storage portfolio with two new high-performance disk storage arrays that provide up to three times better price/performance than the competition¹ and enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data centre footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays complement a range of server architectures, including Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 systems running the Solaris Operating System (OS).

The Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays are the best-performing arrays in their class and help enterprise customers seamlessly upgrade their storage infrastructure to scale storage needs within the same power and space envelope. The new products are ideal for midrange and high-end enterprise and throughput-intensive workloads that target database and enterprise-email applications and add intuitive, enterprise management tools at no cost through the Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software.

The Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays help enterprise customers seamlessly upgrade their storage infrastructure to scale storage needs within the same power and space envelope. The Sun StorageTek 6780 modular array performed well against similarly configured competitor on industry benchmarks.

Demonstrated nearly four times better response times at 1/4th the latency;
Over three times better price/performance;
Showed over two times better performance;
Delivers 48% more IOPS/drive;
and notched the best SPC-2 performance of any sub-$250,000 system.

"Today's enterprise storage manager can't afford to cut corners when it comes to managing data growth and requirements to protect storage investments. Customers need storage and archive solutions that take cost out and allow organizations to do more work in the same data centre foot print while realizing significant savings in power, cooling and rack space,” said JDave Shearer, CEO, Acardia Limited.

For more details regarding the new disk arrays or to take advantage of special offers and promotions for these new storage products please call Acardia on 0845 230 1055.

Published: 6 February 2009